Vampire Dreams
by Baby Doll Rica
Summary: What is Henry and Vicki were soul mates? What if that meant She could be a vampire by his side? What if that meant they could have children? What if they moved to Mystic Falls when she sixteen and met Damon? Find out if your tired of reading my what ifs
1. Big Mistake

Chapter one

Vicki woke up disoriented her head was pounding, "Where am I?" she muttered. As she tried to sit up she realized there was an arm around her waist. "No." She whispered. She looked over at Mikes naked sleeping form. The events of last night came rushing back to her.

"_Vicki I have something to tell you." Henry stood outside her door. _

"_Where were you today the guy at the desk said you didn't live in the flat anymore." Vicki replied pushing up her glasses. "I wanted to see you after last night." _

"_I'm leaving Vicki." He said quietly. _

"_Oh well I guess I'll have to tell Coreen to look after the business until we come back." Vicki looked around her office. _

"_No, I'm leaving. Just me. I cant stay with you Vicki." He said. _

"_No! Henry you cant leave me." She cried._

"_I cant watch you die, I cant feel the urge to turn you, I couldn't bear wanting to kill you." He said touching her face. She backed away._

"_No, Henry it wouldn't be like that. You're stronger than that." Vicki whispered._

"_I don't know that." His grey eyes stared into hers. "I'm sorry Vicki."_

"_So last night was a booty call? You wanted me before you left?" She screamed angrily._

"_No it was goodbye!" he replied._

"_You used me!" she screamed, his eyes flashed dark._

"_I'm sorry Vicki, Someday we will meet again." _

And he was gone. He'd left her all alone. And so she'd started drinking and Coreen had called Mike. Bad idea. Bad Chinese food and bad beer, and revenge sex. Lonely love, and now a mistake. Vicki climbed slowly and quietly out of the bed. Mike didn't stir as she slipped on her clothes and fled to her office bedroom. She hugged her knees to her chest, and cried. Henry was gone, she'd just made the biggest mistake of her life with Mike, and She had a huge Hang over. Later in the afternoon, Coreen knocked on the door.

"I know your in there."

"Yeah so do I." Vicki replied sourly. Coreen came in holding a cup of coffee and a muffin.

"Here, I went by Mikes and he was um, yeah." Coreen said blushing she knew.

"I don't want to talk about it Coreen." She saw the look on her friends face, itching to question it all.

"You should take a vacation." Coreen suggested not caring whether Vicki tore her head off.

"Where the hell would I go?" Vicki snarled.

"Um Maine? In America rent a little cottage and like go on a road trip." Coreen said.

"Fine but Mike knows nothing." Vicki said shoving Coreen out of the room.

**A few weeks later**

Vicki was lounging on a porch swing staring out at the atlantic ocean. When suddenly a wave of nausea over came her. She vomited over the railing of the porch.

"What the hell?" she muttered. Memories of Henry and of Mike came rushing back.

"No, Oh my god!" She rushed inside the cottage. And Dialed Coreen,

"I need help."

"What?" Coreen said groggily.

"Im pregnant I think."

"WHAT!"

"I'll call you back." She hung up. After running to the store and staring at the pregnancy test rack, and old woman walked up to her.

"You know you have to take it home for it to work deary." Vicki blushed and grabbed one.

"Oh This is your first time deary, Well if it works out well conragtualtions. He's a lucky man."

"_If he knew who he was." _Vicki thought fakely smiling at the woman before paying at the register. A few hours later Vicki's world fell apart again.

"Mom?" She said quietly on the phone.

"Yes dear?"

"I'm pregnant." She said, there was a silence.

"Who's the father?" Her mother replied.

"I don't know, well I don't I just don't know which one it is, and one of them left me and I don't think he'll answer his phone and um Mom, I'm scared." Vicky said.

"Come home, honey, I'll help you."

"I don't think I can mom, I have to find the father first." Vicki hung up the phone and called Mike, She had serious explaining to do.

"Hi." She said,

"VICKI! WHERE ARE YOU COREEN WONT TELL ME ANYTHING!" he cried.

"I'm pregnant and in Maine." She said scratching the top of her head.

"What?" Mike quieted down.

"Vicki why didn't you tell me sooner, I would have been there, I'm going to be there." He said.

"I know I Mike I was with Henry too, the night before he left, I Mike it might not be yours." Vicki said.

"He's a vampire of course its mine." Mike retorted.

"Mike I'm not sure I um Vampire can have children with their soul mates. I um Coreen did some research underground, and Mike I'm sorry you're my bestfriend I so sorry." Vicki wiped tears from her eyes, Mike could hear it in her voice.

"Come home Vicki, if it's not mine I don't care and I don't care if you love me, I'll be by your side until Fitzroy comes back." Mike said, Vicki finally started crying.

**Six Months Later**

"VICKI!" The voice on the phone screamed.

"What? God Coreen why are you so awake?" Vicki growled groggily.

"I think I found him, He is France I'll find him Vicki." Coreen had "volunteered" to travel Europe to hunt down Henry.

"WHAT? Coreen stop yelled go to france and find him I don't know if she's his but if she is she'll need him." Vicki thought back to the possibility of her being half vampire. The phone clicked off, Vicki struggled to sit up "MIKE" She flopped backwards onto the bed.

"You cant get up can you?" He grinned.

"Don't make me beat you." She threatened, he pulled her up to sitting position.

"It's three am why don't you go back to bed?" He suggested.

"Coreen said he's in france." Vicki whispered.

**In France….Somewhere**

"HENRY!" Coreen screamed across the street at a familiar nightwalker who turned around startled. Suddenly he was by her side.

"Coreen?" He asked.

"Henry!" She shrieked and threw her arms around his neck.

"Why are you here?" he asked as the strolled through the streets of France.

"Vicki needs you to come home." Coreen said.

"I cant, If I go I might not be able to keep from turning her, I don't want to kill her." Henry said stopping her under a street lamp.

"Henry you might be Her soul mate which means you wouldn't have the urge to kill her." Coreen said.

"What do you mean by might?" He asked his eyes narrowing.

"Well Vicki is pregnant and um it might be yours, or it might be mikes." Coreen said sheepishly. Henry stayed silent.

"I might be a father?" He asked. Coreen smiled and knodded.

"Lets go home." He said taking her by the arm and walking to the nearest air port while chatting on the phone with various people.

"Vicki?" he said.

"I'm coming home."


	2. Emma

_Chapter 2_

"Dectetive Celluci." Henry said at the door,

"Fitzroy." He snarled.

"Hostility? It doesn't suit you." He sneered.

"Well I see you came back to see if you made a bastard child, like father like child." Mike snorted, mike for some reason did not think he was the father. Henry's eyes narrowed.

"Don't ever say that again Celluci." He growled. Mikes eye widened just slightly when he realized what he'd said. Silently praying to whatever god was out there that he hadn't admitted what he knew was true and hoped was not. A figure appeared behind Henry in the door way. The Grocery's dropped to the floor.

"Henry?" Vicki whispered, He turned slowly ashamed. Mike saw the tears run down her face. He sighed, "More Pregnant hormones jesus Christ." He muttered. He watched Henry embrace Vicki and whisper to her. And he turned away into the apartment.

"Vicki, I never thought that this would happen. I new I loved you more than anything I'd ever know but I never knew how much. Vicki please forgive me" He said.

"Henry I don't know if I can trust my heart again." Vicki said.

"You can trust me." Henry told her, but he saw the hesitation on her eyes. Maybe Mike would win this time, because he'd let his own selfish intentions ruin it.

"Hey Oh, um I'm going inside." Coreen sidled past and Vicki waddled after her.

**A few weeks later**

"Coreen please I beg you stake them both!" Vicki cried.

"No can do Juno." Coreen laughed.

"Please Their bickering and trying to be the perfect husband dad baby daddy is so irritating!" Vicki groaned sinking slowly down her bed.

"Come on Vicki two guys mooning over you more than normal its gotta be hard to not like that." Coreen said offering her water.

"It's not that it's just that I don't get to choose, this time the decision is final because of her. This time I could truly loose one of them." Vicki said she ran her fingers through her hair. Vicki gasped suddenly, "Oh my god she's kicking!" Coreen squealed and placed her hand on Vicki's stomach.

"Wow, Oh my god Vicki your having a baby." Coreen gaped. Vicki laughed outright.

"Yeah yeah I am."

**A few months later**

"OH MY GOD YOUR HAVING A BABY!" Coreen shrieked.

"Yes I am and OH MY GOD!" The contractions crippled Vicki.

"Um um I'll call mike or Henry or 911 I'll call your mom!"

"HEY UM who is this? Henry? No this is Mike OH I meant tot call vicki's mom she's having the baby and we are stuck in the apartment I cant carry her. OH MY GOD VICKI!" Coreen hung up and Vicki groaned.

"Coreen get me to the goddam hospital now!" She snarled.

"Henry its five in the afternoon, you should be awake soon, Vicki's having the baby um-" Vicki's loud cry of pain filtered through the phone. That was what Henry would hear when he woke up.

"Coreen? I'm here." Mike barreled through the door way.

"I swear to god if you don't get me to the hospital I'm castrating you!" Vicki snarled.

"Ok we're going." Mike sweat dropped.

"Hi um I need help." Coreen said to the desk attendant.

"Whats the matter mam?"

"I'M HAVING A FUCKING BABY!" Vicki screamed at her. It was nurses turn to sweat drop.

"Ok Calm down we'll get you in and the doctor will come see you." She said getting her into a wheel chair and rushing down the hall way.

"Mike where's the fucking doctor." She groaned.

"He's coming Jesus Christ Vicki." She squeezed his hand when the contractions hit.

"WHERES THE FUCKING DOCTOR!" Mike called.

"Please no profanity." The doctor rushed in and began checking her over.

"Are you the father?" He asked.

"Possibly, the other lucky bastard is on his way." The doctor narrowed his eyes.

"Then you'll have to get out."

"Why?" Vicki whimpered.

"Because your crowning dear." He said simply, calling to a nurse.

"What? Don't I get a epideral or something?" She cried franticly.

The Nurse pushed Mike out and closed the door.

"Coreen? I'm here where is she?" Henry was suddenly in the hall way.

"She's in labor and they wont let Mike in and he's freaking out cause-" Vicki's scream pierced the air. "She's screaming." Coreen finished. Henry looked like he wanted to rush in the room and kill someone. Kill the person who was causing her pain. Except that person was possibly him.

Suddenly the screaming stopped, and the cries of both mother and daughter and could be heard. Mike and Henry rushed. And As soon as Mike saw her he stopped short, she wasn't his. She has sweet reddish blonde hair that curled in tendrils. And the same sharp grey eyes that Henry had. And Henry knew, this child was his. The doctor left, just as red tinged tears fell down his cheeks.

"Vicki, she's beautiful." He said,

"Henry I'm sorry." Vicki smiled, "For everything I've ever done." Henry frowned.

"No I am sorry for running from you, I love you." He said. Mike cleared his throat.

"Mike I'm sorry." Vicki said sitting up.

"No, Vicki I knew the minute you told me, She was Henry's you where his, and I was foolish to think that I'd ever have a chance, The way you look at him and the way he looks at you, it's like nothing I've ever seen. You're my bestfriend, and I will always be here for you and I'll keep a stake handy just incase he put a toe out of line again."

"Celluci, I want you to be her Godfather." Henry said suddenly.

"I'd be honored." Vicki beamed at the two most important men in her life.

"OH SHE'S SO CUTE!" Squealed Coreen.

"What should we name her?"

"Amelia?" Henry suggested.

"Or Ella? Or Charlotte, or um Grace." Coreen said listing off names like an antique baby book.

"Or how bout Emma?" Vicki said.

"Emma, that's good." Henry said.


	3. Tudor Roses

_Chapter Three_

"EMMA?" Vicki called out. She twisted the wedding ring on her finger, one that enabled her to walk in the daylight with her family.

"What?" Emma cried walking into the room, her long curly blonde hair hanging in a pony tail.

"We have to go now." She said, her daughter sighed.

"But I don't want to move Mom." She said to Vicki.

"I don't care Emma." She said.

"But I care." She muttered. Henry strolled into the room,

"This is for your safety Emma." He said.

"I can protect myself Daddy." Emma growled stalking out of the house and getting into a red mustang and driving away.

"She's so difficult." Vicki groaned running her fingers through her blonde hair.

"She's like you." Henry laughed kissing his beautiful undead wife.

"I know! It's so irritating!" Vicki cried getting into their car.

"Follow her before she gets a speeding ticket." She sighed.

"Can I get a speeding ticket?" Henry grinned.

"No." Vicki deadpanned.

"Calm down Love she's fine." Henry said grabbing her hand and driving after their sixteen year old menace.

"I can't believe my parents are making me go." Emma muttered to herself in her mustang, she felt her vision shifting. Her eyes where phasing from silver to black. "Damnit." She growled. Her father said this would happen, she was born a human but soon she would become a vampire. When she got angry it happened, when she smelled blood it happened. Not often, yet. She reached up to her necklace, the one her father had given her. And her vision when back to normal.

Suddenly her phone rang.

"Dad?" she answered.

"You shifted again." He said.

"Yeah now hang up you can't talk on the phone while driving." Emma snorted and hung up. A few hours of driving through random endless country side, she saw a sign,

_**Welcome to Mystic Falls**_

"God it looks like a freaking country home magazine." She muttered. Driving through town, she noticed that every one was watching her. New people must not move in often. Her phone rang to Beethoven's fifth her dad, "Yeah?"

"Let me pass and follow me." He said before hanging up. The Black barracuda sped up and cut her off driving swiftly down the main street of town.

"Show off." She barked. Emma followed her father to the edge of a forest and drove down a dirt road to a big rock wall with a large open gate. She smiled as the saw the wrought iron Tudor roses. Dad had done that to warn the others. She pulled up to circular drive way and the front door was open. Big double red doors. Dark red rose vines climbing up the sides of the house. If a Fitzroy was surrounded by roses they were home. Not to mention they masked the smell of her blood.

"Emma come inside!" Her mom called.

"Coming Mommy." She called back jumping out of the mustang and walking up the steps.

"Welcome home princess." Her father said his arm wrapped itself around her shoulder.

"It's not home yet daddy." Emma replied walking up the spiral stair case.

"Third door on the right Princess." He called, he meant her bedroom. She opened to white door and walked into a colonial era room. With contemporary style, obviously her mothers touch.

"Ok so it might be home." She called back down the stairs. Emma walked over to her balcony, and stared out at the garden in their back yard. _"Why did dad bring me here? This isn't my home, I live in a big city where no one knows me, and here everyone probably already knows my name and history." _She thought. She saw a Crow sitting in a tree from balcony.

"Go away stupid bird." She turned a slammed the balcony door shut as it cawed at her.

"Dad I'm going to town." Emma called walking down the stairs, and out the front door.

"Emma!" She started the car and burned out before her dad could stop her.

She pulled up to a bar and walked in.

"Hey My names Ally can I take your order?"

"Yeah um Coke and Burger please." Emma smiled fakely at the waitress. She glanced over at the bar and saw a dark haired man watching her. She narrowed her eyes and stuck her tongue out at the man. She grinned inwardly as his eyes widened. Suddenly a dark hair girl walked up to her.

"Hi I'm Elena your new here aren't you?" She sat down across from her.

"Um yeah I am." Emma said,

"I'm not crazy I'm just the welcoming committee." She said smiling. Stephan made his way over and sat down.

"Elena?" he asked.

"Oh this is um-" Elena said.

"Emma Fitzroy, newbie." She said shaking his hand.

"Stephan Salvatore." He said, when Emma touch his hand she knew,

"I have to go, Nice meeting you." She stood and practically ran away.

"What was that?" Elena asked.

"She knows, some how she knows."

"Who is that?" Damon asked sliding in across from them.

"Emma Fitzroy." Elena replied.

"Fitzroy?" Damon said.

"Wait, she can't be." Stephan said.

"I know she can't." Damon said.

"Mind explaining?" Elena asked.

"Henry Fitzroy is one of the oldest and most famous vampires. He was the bastard son Henry the eight. The one who killed his wives off cause he was a horny son of a bitch." Damon explained.

"So more vampires have moved in?" Elena asked.

"She wasn't a vampire, she was something else." Stephan said.

"She stuck her tongue out at me." Damon muttered.

"What?" Elena said confused, as Damon dissapered.

**Sorry it's so short but it seemed like good place to leave off at.**

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	4. Friends come Easily

_Chapter four_

"DADDY!" Emma screamed running through the house.

"Emma?" He said worried appearing beside her.

"There are more vampires here, why didn't you tell me." Emma growled.

"They won't interfere in our lives." Henry said darkly before disappearing.

"BEING CRYPTIC IS NOT IN THE DADDY HANDBOOK!" She screamed after him.

"Emma will you stop fighting your father?" Vicki said grabbing her hand and dragging her to the rose garden.

"Mom this isn't fair, First you take me away from everything I've ever know and then you don't tell me anything about where we're going!" Emma whined.

"Life's not fair." Vicki said simply sitting at a picnic table.

"Mom seriously I don't want to be here, I don't have any friends here! Mom what if I phase during school? I can't wear sunglasses inside like the city schools." Emma cried.

"You won't, just don't get angry." She said simply. Emma raises an eyebrow in distain.

"You don't understand." Emma growled angrily, stalking out into the trees.

**With the Salvatore's**

"Someone's here." Damon snarled he walked into the living room; a strange man lounged on his sofa.

"Who are you?" Stephan asked.

"Henry Fitzroy and you?" Henry replied casually.

"What do you want?" Damon asked.

"Stephan Salvatore and Damon." Stephan replied.

"I'm here to make sure you're not a threat." Henry said standing; he was as tall as Damon.

"Are you threatening us?" Stephan asked.

"No just taking insurance." He replied.

"Insurance to what?" Stephan replied.

"That you'll stay away from my daughter." Henry said, his eyes flashed.

"Your daughter?" Damon asked.

"Your creator left you." Henry said.

"Excuse me?" Stephan said confused.

"Your Young, Let me educate you. Your creator is supposed to teach you, stay with you like a parent. For a year then they leave you, most of the time. It is a common misconception that Vampires can't reproduce, but they can with their soul mates." Henry said, normally he would have scoffed and told them how uneducated they were. But Since Emma his fatherly nature showed through. And their confusion made him feel superior.

"Emma is half a vampire?" Stephan said, Damon just looked horrified.

"No, she'll turn." Henry replied.

"So why are you here?" He asked.

"To leave a warning, stay away from her and there won't be repercussions." Henry snarled before vanishing.

"Damon?" Stephan turned to his brother.

"Why the fuck do we have soul mates? Isn't the point of eternity to do what ever you want?" He said, Stephan sighed.

"Stephan?" Elena walked in.

"Soul mates." Damon muttered pouring a glass of brandy.

"Excuse me? Why does Damon look like someone told him he slept with his mom?" She asked.

"Fitzroy left a message." He replied.

"And what would that be?" she asked.

"Stay away from Emma." Stephan said.

"Easy enough." He replied.

"No, not easy she stuck her tongue out me." Damon said.

"Why do you care so much?" Stephan he asked. And Damon was gone.

"DAMON!" He yelled. When he got no answer he finished off Damon's brandy.

"I hope he doesn't do something stupid." Elena said, curling up next to Stephan on the couch.

"He will." Stephan sighed.

**At the Fitzroy household **

"Emma." Henry said as he walked into her room.

"Yeah." She growled.

"Don't cop attitude." He narrowed his eyes.

"I'm going to so get over it." She snarled spinning her computer chair around.

"Emma, you are here for protection don't make me regret it." He said quietly. Her face softened.

"GO away dad." She said turning around.

"Emma-"He started.

"Go." She repeated, and he was gone.

"Vicki I don't under stand her." Henry said, as she walked into his art room.

"She's your daughter your not suppose to understand." Vicki said running her fingers through his hair.

"But how can I protect her if she wont tell me what's going with her." He said turning around.

"I don't know, Henry I never had a father, your father was king." Vicki said.

"Vicki." Henry said his voice was low.

"Henry." She replied wrapping her arms around his neck.

"I don't like that boy, Salvatore, I don't trust him." Henry growled. Vicki laughed,

"Because he's a vampire or because he's a boy?" She asked.

"I think we should call Seth." Henry said.

"No." She said.

"Seth is good for Emma; she needs someone to protect her." He said.

"I'm not going to get in your way Henry but I'm not going to pretend I agree with it." Vicki said and walked out the door leaving her husband wondering why women were so god dam difficult.

"Fitzroy." The voice said on the phone.

"You need to come to Mystic Falls." Henry said.

"Why." He challenged.

"Emma."

"Alright." The phone clicked off. What Henry didn't know was that certain black bird was sitting on Emma's balcony watching her sleep.

When Emma woke up she froze something was watching her, she turned and saw a black bird fly away from her window. After she ran her hands through her hair and realized she'd be late for school. "Shit." She swore and jumped up and grabbed a skirt and tank top and ran into the bathroom.

"MOM! BREAKFAST!" She yelled down the stairs, and smelled toast burning.

"Damn it." Her mom cursed as she ran down the stairs, Emma grabbed the toast and ran out to door spitting it out as she went.

"LEARN TO USE A TOASTER!" She yelled starting her car and speeding out of the driveway. When Emma pulled up the school she saw a Blonde girl talking to two boys. She could smell that the dark haired boy was supernatural, of what she didn't know. The Girl was a vampire, a new one she could smell the blood coming off her. So many creatures of the dark, what else was drawn to this town she wondered.

Then she saw the girl from the Grill, Elena walking towards her,

"Hey." She smiled at Emma, who smiled back.

"Hey Elena right?" She nodded,

"So you need a tour of the school?" Emma glanced at the Blonde who was walking up.

"Sure."

"Hey I'm Caroline you're new." Caroline said.

"Yeah I'm Emma Fitzroy." She smiled at Caroline. Elena looked at them and noticed the strange look in her eyes.

"Alright let's get on with the tour." Elena said and led Emma through the school. Caroline read Emma's class list and smiled,

"We have three classes together." She looked up.

"Really which ones?" Emma looked at her schedule.

"Science first, Math second, and Geography fourth."

"Hey you have seventh with my Brother and Tyler Lockwood." Elena said, "Oh and History with me! Mr. Saltzman is a great teacher." Caroline stifled a laugh.

"I love history, my dads an um History Buff." Emma smiled shyly.

"You dad and Mr. Saltzman would probably get along." Caroline said.

"Maybe." Elena said quietly, thinking about what Damon had said at the Grill. One of the most respected vampires in the world and she was making friends with his daughter.

"Oh that's the Bell! We have Math." Caroline smiled at Emma and led her into a class room.

"Ew Algebra." Emma muttered Caroline laughed.

"It's not that hard." She told her.

"You Must be Emma Fitzroy, You're school was ahead of ours so for the next week just follow along until the test, which I expect you to pass." An elderly looking woman told her. she assumed, the apparently evil math teacher. When Emma turned she saw a blonde boy talking to Caroline, who was holding his hand.

"Is she always that mean?" Emma asked walking up to them.

"Mrs. Birner yeah." The boy said.

"Hi I'm Emma Fitzroy." She smiled at him, holding out her hand.

"Matt." He replied.

"I just moved here from New York. We bought the old Hollis house." She explained.

"I wondered who'd moved in they've been rebuilding for almost a year." Matt grinned.

"A year." Emma muttered, her eyes almost turned as she thought about her father's deception.

"SIT!" The teacher shrilled just in time, Emma couldn't keep up with all the small town cliques. She went through the day with nothing exciting happening except for History class with Alaric Saltzman. After class he called her up.

"So Ms. Fitzroy how do you like Mystic Falls?" He asked she could tell he was searching for something.

"It's interesting, Elena Gilbert has been really friendly, this whole town in pretty friendly. Thanks for being interesting; Back in New York I was a statistic." Emma said and then skipped out of the classroom. Why did everyone connected the Elena seem to be unnatural in a way? She walked into the Art class room and saw the dark haired boy speaking with a boy who'd arrived at the school with Elena.

"Hey Your Emma, Elena said to look out for you." The boy came over.

"Yeah." She said warily.

"I'm Jeremy Gilbert her brother." He shook her hand and then looked her in the eyes. He knew what she was.

"Tyler Lockwood." The other boy with Caroline said he shook her hand and she froze. He watched her silver eyes grow wide with knowledge. She knew.

"Alright to your easels!" The teacher said her wild brown hair was held down by a tie die beret.

"This week's assignment is a depiction of the 1800's. I want you to draw something that has meaning to you but if must be in the fashion of the 1800's." Jeremy smiled. Emma started sketching next to him and he stared.

"You're amazing." He said, Tyler glanced over before coming to look.

"No I'm not my Dad is. He's a graphic novelist. He's amazing." She looked up at them frowning.

"Your dad writes comic books?" Tyler repeated.

"Graphic Novels." Jeremy and Emma said in unison.

"Sorry." Tyler held up his hands. And back away.


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